Turn your screen brightness all the way down (if you haven't already). If you look on the batter usage statistics, the single biggest user of battery (especially for SAMOLED devices) is the screen. Also, if you have low cell signal, turn 3g data off.
Also, JuiceDefender is an awesome app that will extend you battery life A LOT.

Another way to make sure you are getting the most of your phones battery is to turn it off and charge it for one night. My mom's Incredible had a huge problem with the battery until she did this.

This is similar to calibrating your battery. The device simply needs to know where to charge too max. So you charge first with Android started up, unplug, shutdown android, charge it while being off again and boot up. Now the battery should be calibrated. But it is not an effect of the battery itself, since Li-Ion batterys do not show this behaviour.

Also, planning to get rid of my milestone after this year. Anyone know what upcoming phone I should get? I need one that doesn't overheats like shitty milestone, and have a big screen, and a good CPU.

Also, someone tell me what's so good about Cyanogen mod. Using Launcherpro currently, but what benefits are there? Is it really worth it to change for my milestone?

Nope. My younger brother discovered this much to his frustration after basically fabricating an entire American identity in an attempt to get it to work.

Wait until all the super-duper CES phones hit the market. You'll have to wait 3-6 months for them, but it'll be so worth it.

In my experience, Cyannogen added a bunch of little features that I felt were missing from vanilla (Like a lockscreen slider that takes you straight to your messaging app of choice and power control widget style toggles in the notification menu) and improved the performance of my ageing device somewhat. Try it out, I guess. You've got nothing to lose.

19th January 2011
Last edited by Ezhik; 19th January 2011 at 02:28PM.
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My battery life is terrible with my Epic. Usually I make it to the end of the day with 20ish charge left. I'm afraid to mess around with my phone during the day. If I browse through a few of my apps I can make a big chunk of my battery drain in a few minutes.

My Fascinate dies around 2 or 3 PM, with no use at all during the day.

Oh I dont know, a 7" Android tablet would sit nicely in my bag, ready to be used when I need it. To be completely honest I find netbooks a bit of a pain.
The trackpad and keyboards are ususaly crap. I would rather just use an on screen one. Not to mention it will run well. Unlike a netbook trying to run windows 7.

But my netbook is running windows 7 quite fine. it even has a longer battery life now than with XP.

20th January 2011
Last edited by Robber; 20th January 2011 at 05:05PM.
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Not if they ignore alot of potentional customers that cba to get a creditcard just because one company refuses to support multiple payment methods.

I really don't see the benefits of creditcards, basically you pay money, but instead of it being withdrawn from your bank account, it just adds debt to the creditcard and you have to pay the credit card company? This only adds the possibility to spend money you don't have, which isn't a good idea to begin with.

Not if they ignore alot of potentional customers that cba to get a creditcard just because one company refuses to support multiple payment methods.

I really don't see the benefits of creditcards, basically you pay money, but instead of it being withdrawn from your bank account, it just adds debt to the creditcard and you have to pay the credit card company? This only adds the possibility to spend money you don't have, which isn't a good idea to begin with.

Not if they ignore alot of potentional customers that cba to get a creditcard just because one company refuses to support multiple payment methods.

I really don't see the benefits of creditcards, basically you pay money, but instead of it being withdrawn from your bank account, it just adds debt to the creditcard and you have to pay the credit card company? This only adds the possibility to spend money you don't have, which isn't a good idea to begin with.